The United States’ Cancerous Brainlessness Is apparently Going to Take a Second Bite out of Libya — Might this become a Religious Parable Down the Road?

29 January 2016

Continually wrecking things is obviously morally obtuse, but apparently very profitable

The United States’ actions from the Vietnam War to the present may someday turn into spiritual teaching parables on someone else’s planet:

Worried about a growing threat from the Islamic State in Libya, the United States and its allies are increasing reconnaissance flights and intelligence collecting there and preparing for possible airstrikes and commando raids, senior American policy makers, commanders and intelligence officials said this week.

“It’s fair to say that we’re looking to take decisive military action against ISIL in conjunction with the political process” in Libya, [Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] General [Joseph F.] Dunford said.

“The president has made clear that we have the authority to use military force.”

General Dunford said the United States, France, Italy and Britain are looking with urgency at how to stem the growth in the power of the Islamic State in Libya before it spreads throughout North Africa and the sub-Saharan countries.

In particular, he said it was important to “put a firewall” between the Islamic State in Libya and other militant Islamic extremist groups on the African continent, while working to strengthen the ability of African militaries and governments to fight those groups themselves.

Libyan firewall?

“Firewall” is a curious choice of words, given that we intentionally removed the bulwark against chaos that Saddam Hussein once provided in Iraq. And followed that up with an equally egregious piece of reckless stupidity by getting Muammar Qaddafi killed in Libya.

Then — by encouraging Syrian Civil War rebels and pulling the rug out from under them immediately afterward — we contributed heavily to knocking down yet a third firewall in Bashar al-Assad’s Syria.

In sum, having intentionally destroyed three “firewalls” — we are now using the same metaphor to justify re-bashing Libya (for its own good, of course) and setting a purportedly educational example for the rest of Africa. While simultaneously contributing to terrorism’s spread by ensuring that the tsunami of bloodshed continues to rise in Yemen, where the U.S. is supporting Saudi Arabian assaults.

If I use the word “cretinous” to describe the combined intellect of American civilian leadership, would that be rude?

Actually, given these people’s records of unequivocal brainlessness, “cretin” would probably be a compliment.

One would think that at some point an American political leader (or two) might pull his head out of his ass

The continuing maelstrom of American warmongering feeds Military Industrial Complex profits and nothing else. But maybe that is the unadmitted point. Endless war is good for high ranking leaders’ advancement and for oligarchs’ profits.

I hark back to a wiser (military) man’s caution to President George W. Bush regarding the proposed Iraq invasion, “If you break it, you own it.”

Apparently his civilian superiors took this caveat to mean that breaking firewalls and bulwarks would provide unending sources of profit, as they hypocritically continued pretending to fix them.

The moral? — The result has been and continues to be evil in the Biblical sense

The Great American Plutocracy’s greed for power and influence, combined with its awe-inspiring cultural and strategic stupidity, continues to create conditions that spawn terrorism and insurgency on impressively massive and further destabilizing scales.

The indefensibly bloody futility of all this should be worth a spiritually intended teaching story or two down the road.

Perhaps in some smarter species’ religious repertoire.

I am reminded of Lieutenant Brandon Friedman’s lament in regard to the Iraq War:

I felt like we had been taken advantage of. We were professionals sent on a wild goose chase using a half-baked plan for political reasons.

Lying there restlessly, I was reminded of a Schwarzenegger line in one of his movies — when, after being used and lied to, his muscle-bound character had expressed perfectly what was now on my mind:

My men are not expendable. And I don’t do this kind of work.

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The United States’ Cancerous Brainlessness Is apparently Going to Take a Second Bite out of Libya — Might this become a Religious Parable Down the Road?